Hellebuyck stopped 74 of 75 shots (.987 save%) on the weekend in leading
the River Hawks to 1-0 and 3-1 wins against No. 6 Notre Dame. He made
40 stops on Friday in his eighth career shutout and followed that up with a
34-save effort on Saturday afternoon.

WARRIOR HOCKEY CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK

#94 DEVIN SHORE, MAINE(Sophomore Forward; Ajax, Ont.)

Shore registered two goals and an assist in Maine's 5-1 win over Boston College on Saturday
night. He scored Maine's first goal just 37 seconds into the game and Maine would never
relinquish the lead, while his second goal came midway through the second frame. Shore
posted three shots on goal in the game with a +2 rating.

PRO AMBITIONS ROOKIE OF THE WEEK

#27 DALEN HEDGES, NORTHEASTERN(Freshman Forward; Ottawa, Ont.)

Hedges notched four points (2g,2a) on the weekend, he tied a career-high
with three points (2g,1a) at Merrimack on Friday night. He also won 23-of-
27 face-offs over the weekend for the Huskies and recorded six shots on
goal with a +3 plus/minus rating.

O'Connor stopped 92 of the 96 shots (.958 save%) he faced over the weekend to lead BU
to a win and tie against No. 14 North Dakota. In Saturday's draw, he recorded a career-high
55 saves at Agganis Arena.

HOCKEY EAST TEAM OF THE WEEK

UMASS LOWELL RIVER HAWKS

The River Hawks earned a four-point weekend vs. No. 6 Notre Dame at home. UMass
Lowell went 4-for-9 (44.4%) against the nation's top ranked penalty kill.

Jeff Silengo, UNH (MADISON, CONN.)
played in his 100th career game Friday night at Providence

Nick Sorkin, UNH (ROCKVILLE, MD.)
has a six-game point streak (5g,2a)

STEVEN SUMMERHAYS, ND (ANCHORAGE ALASKA)
Since giving up five goals in a 5-4 loss to Minnesota on Nov.
9, HE has given up five goals in his last four games. He is 1-2-
1 in those games with a 1.24 GAA and a .958 save percentage

TEAM NOTES

Boston College: Johnny Gaudreau's point streak continues with an assist on
Scott Savage's goal at Maine on Saturday night. He is one game shy of matching
his career-high of nine games. Throughout the scoring stretch, Gaudreau has accounted
for nine goals and seven assists (9-7-16). With the two-goal, one-assist
performance on Wednesday night at Harvard, Gaudreau cracked the top 50 goal
scorers list for a career at Boston College. He leapfrogged Ben Eaves (2000-04)
and is now tied with Mike Lephart (1997-01) and Brian Callahan (1993-97) for
49th place, all-time, amongst Eagle goal scorers. Gaudreau is also tied with Lee
Blossom (1979-83) for 57th all-time in career points with 118 (54-64-118). The
third-year forward has recorded 119 points in 92 games played. Through Sunday,
Gaudreau is still the nation's points per game leader at 1.85. The Eagles have lost
their last three games to Maine. Bill Arnold, Kevin Hayes and Ryan Fitzgerald all
had their seven-game point streaks snapped in Orono.

Boston University: After averaging at least 15 penalty minutes per game in
each of the past five seasons, the Terriers are only averaging 10.0 penalty minutes
per contest thus far this season…BU's d-pair of senior Garrett Noonan and sophomore
Ahti Oksanen (Kirkkonummi, Finland) shares the team lead in scoring with
11 points each…Sophomore Matt Lane is tied for second on the team in scoring
with 10 points (3g,7a) and has already surpassed his rookie point total (7)…After
scoring just four first-period goals in its first 11 games, the Terriers tallied a trio
of goals in the opening period during the North Dakota series…Sophomore Danny
O'Regan scored a goal in each of his first three contests versus North Dakota…
The Terriers have now played a combined 102 games against the eight schools
that make up the newly formed NCHC and hold a 50-43-9 all-time record against
them…All of BU's wins this season have come at home, as the team is 6-2-1 at
Agganis Arena and 0-4-0 on the road…A fourth straight sellout is expected for
Red Hot Hockey, as the Terriers will take on longtime rival Cornell on Saturday at
newly renovated Madison Square Garden.

Maine: Maine defeated No. 7 Boston College 5-1 on Saturday night in front of
a sellout crowd of 5,125 fans. It is the first sellout at Alfond Arena since Dec.
10, 2010 against New Hampshire…The Black Bears are 6-1-0 at Alfond Arena
this season…Maine has won three straight games against Boston College dating
back to last year…On each occasion, the Eagles were ranked in the nation's top-
10…Maine held Boston College, which has the nation's top-ranked offense, to
just one goal…Maine is 5-2-1 on the season when scoring first…The Black Bears
are averaging 4.29 goals per game at home this year…Defenseman Ben Hutton
(Prescott, Ont.) leads the Black Bears in goals with six and in game-winning goals
with two. He recorded his first career multi-goal game on Saturday night against
Boston College. Hutton's six goals rank tied for the national lead in goals by a
defenseman… Nine of the 14 players to play in all 11 games for the Black Bears
this season are either freshmen or sophomores…Maine has allowed two goals
or less in five of its last six games.

Massachusetts: Five Minutemen registered one point apiece in Friday's 3-2
loss to Vermont including senior Conor Sheary, who recorded his squad-best
seventh assist of the year. The helper was Sheary's 85th point of his career…
Freshmen Steven Iacobellis and Ray Pigozzi contributed a goal and an assist,
respectively for their seven and eighth points of the year. Iacobellis' tally marked
his fifth of the season to match senior Branden Gracel for the team lead…Junior
goaltender Steve Mastalerz returned to the lineup after being sidelined with an injury
that kept him out of the team's previous three contests heading into the weekend.
He logged 26 saves in Friday's game and 32 on Sunday vs. the Catamounts…Prior
to Sunday's game at Vermont, head coach John Micheletto announced that redshirt
junior Troy Power has been named a team captain, joining Sheary, who was named
captain prior to UMass' home opener against Michigan State.

UMass-Lowell: No. 11 UMass Lowell swept the weekend series, 1-0 & 3-1,
from No. 6 Notre Dame in the first ever meeting between the two schools in any
sport…The River Hawk power play excelled going 4-for-9 against the nation's top
penalty kill unit…The River Hawk Blue Line Corps contributed to the offense; junior
Zack Kamrass (Atlanta, Ga.) and freshman Michael Kapla (Eau Claire, Wis.) scored
first period power plays goals Saturday marking the first time this season the
defense has produced multiple goals in a game...Goaltender Connor Hellebuyck
stopped 74 of 75 shots (.987 save%) on the weekend. Hellebuyck's shutout
streak reached 179:21 before Notre Dame's second period goal on Saturday.
The streak is the third longest in UMass Lowell hockey history…Both games drew
sell-out crowds, 6,515 on Friday and 6,405 on Saturday...Former UMass Lowell
Coach Bill Riley was inducted into the University's Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Under Riley's direction the program won some 363 games, three Division II
National Championships, moved to Division I and became a member of Hockey
East in the conference's inaugural season.

Merrimack: Merrimack remained winless in Hockey East (0-5-1) after being
swept by Northeastern on the weekend, losing at home, 5-2, before suffering a
shutout on the road (2-0) on Saturday...Merrimack will head into the brief Thanksgiving
break winless in Hockey East for the first time since the 2005-06 season;
that year, Merrimack finished 6-23-5 overall and 3-19-5 in league play...Saturday
marked Merrimack's fifth shutout loss in 12 games this season; the Warriors
suffered just four shutout losses all of last year...Merrimack is now 4-16-2 (.181)
over its last 22 games dating back to the end of last season...The opposition
has scored the game's first goal in 10-of-12 games this season...Nationally,
Merrimack ranks 57th in scoring offense (1.67) and T-23rd in scoring defense
(2.58)...Merrimack also ranks 54th in power play percentage (11.9) and 26th in
penalty kill success (83.3)...Winless in its last five games (0-5-1), Merrimack is
in danger of matching its longest winless streak (0-7-0) since 2009-10, when the
Warriors lost seven straight from Dec. 5 through Jan. 22

New Hampshire: UNH split the weekend series at Providence, taking the first
game by score of 3-2 in overtime on Friday. That win gave New Hampshire it sixth
straight, matching a streak set in the 2006-07 season. Junior Matt Willows led
the Wildcats to victory in the first game as he scored in the first period and just
15 seconds into overtime. He now has five goals in his last four games against
PC. During the six-game winning streak, the Wildcats outscored opponents
27-6. Senior Nick Sorkin is currently riding a six-game point streak, registering
five goals and two assists. New Hampshire will play Harvard on Tuesday before
traveling to Colorado College for a pair of games later in the week. The team is
2-1-0 against ECAC opponents and will meet an NCHC opponent for the first time
this season. In all eight Hockey East games played this year, UNH has scored
first in each of them.

Northeastern: Northeastern secured its first Hockey East weekend sweep
since Jan. 27-28, 2013 at Vermont, and its first weekend sweep of Merrimack
since Jan. 9-10, 2009. Witt's shutout on Saturday was the first for a Husky since
Chris Rawlings shut out Massachusetts on Nov. 30, 2012…Northeastern scored
five goals at Merrimack on Saturday night, its most goals scored against the
Warriors since Feb. 5, 2010…Both wins this weekend helped NU to its fourth
road and home victories of the season, matching last season's totals at both
venues…Four different Huskies have tallied three assists in a game this season;
all four of them are freshmen (Aston-Reese, N. Ferriero, Hedges, Szmatula)…The
Northeastern freshman class had 12 points (four goals, eight assists) this weekend,
and is tied with Boston College for the nation's lead in rookie scoring with
57 points (15g, 42a).

NOTRE DAME: Notre Dame came into the weekend series with UMass-Lowell
having surrendered just four power-play goals but gave up four to the River Hawks
in two games…Friday' shutout was the first time that Notre Dame was blanked in
a game since Feb. 17, 2012 when Miami's Connor Knapp stopped 31 shots in a
3-0 win…Saturday's 3-1 loss (3 ppgs) marked the first time the Irish had given up
three PPG's in a game since Feb. 9, 2013 when Michigan had three in a 6-4 Notre
Dame win. The road sweep by UMass.-Lowell was the first time the Irish lost two
on the road since Feb. 17-18, 2012 when Notre Dame dropped a pair of games at
Miami (OH)…The Irish again played without five players in the UMass-Lowell series
as forwards Vince Hinostroza, Thomas DiPauli, Mike Voran and Steven Fogarty
and defenseman Eric Johnson remain sidelined with injuries…Notre Dame will
host the 2013 Shillelagh Tournament at the Compton Family Ice Arena on Nov.
29-30 with Alabama-Huntsville, Northwestern and Western Michigan rounding out
the tournament field.

Providence College: Providence posted a weekend split with New Hampshire
including a 3-2 overtime loss on Friday night and a 4-2 win on Saturday
night at Schneider Arena…The Friars have reached the 10-win plateau in 13
games played, their fastest to 10 wins since opening the 1989-90 season with
a 10-2-1 mark…Ross Mauermann scored his team-high 11th goal of the season
on Saturday. Mauermann's 11 goals are tied for third-most in the nation…Derek
Army skated in the 123rd consecutive game of his Friar career on Saturday night
(he has played every game since arriving on campus)…Sophomore Noel Acciari
scored his fifth goal of the season on Saturday night against UNH (he scored
six goals in 33 games as a red-shirt freshman in 2012-13)…Sophomore Mark
Jankowski scored his seventh goal of the year on Friday night (scored seven in
34 games as a freshman).

Vermont: Vermont snapped a three-game losing streak at the Mullins Center on
Friday night with a 3-2 come-from-behind victory, followed by a 2-0 shutout at home
on Sunday…Rookie Mike Santaguida made 39 saves for his first career shutout,
and the first for the team since Feb. 9, 2013 against Maine when Brody Hoffman
blanked the Black Bears 3-0…Over the last two seasons, the Catamounts are
13-1-2 when leading after two periods...The Catamounts only gave the Minutemen
four total power plays over the two-game series…During Hockey East play, the
penalty kill is 37-for-40 (92.5 percent), which is the top mark in the league…UVM
also went 3-for-8 on the power play in the two-game series and has a 17.6 percent
success rate in Hockey East play (fourth in the league)…Jake Fallon ranks eighth
in Hockey East in faceoff percentage (57%) and has taken the most draws of
any player ranked in the top-10…UVM has scored 25 goals this season, and 18
different players have netted at least one tally.